Furniture-bracket



S. JONES.

FURNITURE BRACKET.

' APPLICATION FILED mm. 1919.

Patented June 29, 1920.

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FURNITURE BRACKET.

APPLICATION FILED mm, 1919.

Pdtented June 29, 1920.

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PATENT OFFICE.

! SIMON JONES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FURNITURE-BRACKET.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented J 29 i920 Application filed April 4, 1919. Serial Nd. 287,383.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SIMON JONES, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of New York, in the county of New York, in the State of New York, have invented. certain new and useful Improvements in Furniture-Brackets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists in a new and useful improvement in clamp brackets and is designed to provide a device for removable attachment, at any desired point, for the purpose of supporting an article of furniture, and is more particularly designed for the support of a bed or babys crib, so that same may be quickly and easily supported at any one of a number of places where it may be desired to place the bed or crib, temporarily. One of the novel features, to which I desire to direct particular attention, is the peculiar form of the bracket arm, which I employ in my device. is provided with two oppositely disposed curves, one at each end of the arm. As this arm is designed to revolve about its supporting member, these curves permit the article of furniture, which is supported at the end of the arm opposite the end adjacent the supporting member, to be brought into immediate proximity with the fixed supporting medium to which the supporting member may be attached. For example, if the bracket be attached to the post of the head of a bed, the curve adjacent the suptions and as the bracket arm is adapted to be reversed in its position in the supporting member, the proper disposition of these curves may be secured to permit the crib to be placed flush with either the front or the back of thehead of the bed. In like manner, if the bracketbe attached at the .side of a window, the curves will permit the arm to be extended either around the window frame and out of the window, or around the supporting medium, so that the crib or other article of furniture carried upon the This arm side of the window.

Another feature of my device to which particular attention is invited is the novel form of a clamp which is utilized to permit the device to be attached indifferently to either vertical or horizontal fixed media of support. My clamp is so designed as'to provlde two transverse passageways therethrough, for the reception of the fixed medium of support and the supporting member. If the device is to be attached to a vertical fixed medium of support, both the fixed medium and the memberare received in the same passageway, but, if the device arm may be placed flush with the wall alongis to be attached to a horizontal fixed medium of support, the fixed medium is re ceived in one passageway and the supporting member is received in the other passageway disposed at right angles to the former passageway, so that the supporting member may be secured, constantly, ina vertical position. A clamping screw, set by hand, is used to secure the clamp when the fixed medium and the supporting member have been received therein.

The foregoing novel features of my device will be apparent from the embodiment of my invention in the detailed construction, illustrated in the drawings and hereinafter fully described.

In the drawings:

, Figure 1 is a general perspective view of my device, shown as applied'tothe post of the head of a bed, carrying a crib upon the bracket arm.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the bracket arm, in the position shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the bracket arm, when in its reversed position.

Fig. .4 is a perspective view of a detail of my device, showing the supporting member applied to a horizontal supporting medium. a

Fig. 5 is a perspective View of my improved form of clamp.

Fig. 6 is a transverse sectional View of Fig. 5. I I 1 In the drawings: e

The numeral 1 designates afixed supporting medium, inthis case a post of the head of a bed. The numeral 2 designates a hollow tubular supporting member, which is clamped to the medium 1 b means of my improved clamp 3, which will be described presently. The bracket arm 4 has an extension 5 disposed at an angle of 90 to the arm 4: and adapted to be carried within the supporting member 2. Adjacent the extension 5 is the end portion 6 of the arm 4, with the curve 7 interposed betweenthe end portion 6 and the middle portion 8. At the opposite end of the middle portion 8 is the curve 9, reverse to the curve 7, and beyond the curve 9 is the end portion 10, disposed in a line substantially parallel to the line of the end portion 6, the curves .7 and 9 describing arcs of approximately 45 The end portions 6 and 10 and the middle portion 8 lie in the same plane in relation to the extension 5. Extending from the end portion 10, at an angle of 90 to this plane and in thedirectionopposite to that of the extension 5, is the extension 11. The article of furniture to be carried upon the arm 1, such as a crib as indicated in Fig. 1, is indicated by the numeral 12, and is provided with two 'loops or eyes 13 which are adapted to embrace the extension 11 so as to permit the article 12 to revolve about the extension 11 and at the same time to be removed from the extension 11. The bearing collars 14 are provided upon the extensions 5 and 11 at their inner ends to aflord bearing surfaces against the end of the su porting member 2 and the lower loop 13. s the construction of the arm 4 is identical on both sides of the middle point of the middle portion 8,

with the exception of the disposition of the curves 7 and 9, it will be apparent thatithe extensions 5 and 11 are both adapted to be either inserted within the supporting member 2 or disposed to receive thereon the loops 13.

The clamp 3 has a body portion 15 from which extend the parallelly disposed sides 16 and 17, having the throat 18 between them. Upon the ends of the sides 16 and 17 are hooks 19 and 20, with the tips 19 (not shown) and 20 The sides 16 and 17 are so disposed from the body portion 15 as to provide a transverse opening between. them, at

right angles to the opening between the sides 16 and 17 providing the throat 18, so that the clamp 3. is provided with two transverse passageways disposed at right angles to one another. One of these passageways has an opening thereto through the throat 18, between the sides 16 and 17, and the other has an. opening thereto between thetip 19 and the body portion 15 and another opening thereto between the tip 2O and the body portion 15.. Operating through the body-v portion 15, is the clamping screw 21, with the handle 22. This screw 21 may be ex tended and retractedin the throat 18, transversel V to thepassageway between the hooks 19 an 20'and'the bodyportion'15.

- From the foregoing description, the use of my device will be readily understood. If

itis desired to attach the device to. a vertical fixed supporting medium, such as is indicated in Fig. 1, two of the clamps 3 are placed about. the supportin medium 1, by passing the sides 16 and 17 on either side of the medium 1, with the clamps in the position shown in Fig. 5. When the medium 1 is opposite the openings between the tips 19, 20 and the body portion 15, the clamps 8 are turned, a quarter turn, permitting the medium l to be engaged by the sides 16 and 17. The clamps 3' are then slightly retracted, so thatothe medium 1 is seated in the hooks 19', 20, as indicated in Fig. 6. Thesupporting member 2 is then inserted between the medium 1 and the body portion 15 of the hooks. 3, through the passageways within which the medium 1 is situated, and the clamping screws 21 are advanced by means of the handles 22 to clamp the supporting member 2 to the fixed supporting medium 1. If it is desired to attach the device to a horizontal fixed supporting medium, such as 1, indicated in Fig. 4, the operation outlined above is performed so as to seat the medium 1 in the hooks 19, 20, and the supporting member 2 is then inserted between the medium 1 and the body portion 15, through the passageway disposed at right angles to theopassageway in which the medium 1"is disposed. In'order to afford stable support for the device, it will be apparent thatthere must be provided two horizontal media 1 parallelly disposed, to each of which a clamp 3 may be applied in line vertically, so that the supporting member 2 maybe secured in a vertical position, in the manner above outlined. V I

Having described my invention, what I claim is:

1. The combination in a furniture bracket of a hollow tubular member adapted to be removably attached to a fixed cylindrical support; and a bracket arm adapted to be extended partially around said fixed cylindrical support, and having a depending portionadapted toextend within. said tubular member, a curve adjacent said depending portion, an upwardly extending portion and upwardly extending portions at equal distance on opposite sides of the vertical plane of the middle portion of the arm. 7

2. The combination in'a furniture bracket of a hollow tubular member adapted .to be removably attached to a fixed cylindrical support; and a bracketarm adapted to be extended partially around said .fixed cylindrical support, and provided with an extensionat each of its ends, said extensions extending inopposite directions'from the said arm, at angles of 90, and adapted either to be received within said tubular member or to receive thereon an article of furniture, and oppositely disposed complementary curves disposed between said extensions and the middle portion of said bracket arm and adapted to position said extensions at equal distance on opposite sides of the vertical plane of the middle. portion of the said bracket arm,

3. The combination in a furniture bracket of a vertically disposed tubular supporting member adapted to be removably attached to a vertically disposed cylindrical support; a bracket armhorizontally disposed in relation to said supporting member and provided with extensions at its ends disposed in opposite directions at right angles to said arm, said extensions being adapted either to be received in said supporting member or to receive thereon an article of furniture, said bracket arm being adapted to rotate about the axis of said supporting member;

vand oppositely disposed curves located between the ends of said arm and its middle portion, adapted to dispose said arm partially about said vertically disposed cylindrical support, and to position said extensions at equal distance on opposite sides of the vertical plane of the middle portion of the said bracket arm.

4. The combination in a furniture bracket of a hollow tubular member; a clamp provided with two parallelly disposed hooks forming a throat therebetween, the shanks of said hooks being so disposed-as to provide a passageway through said clamp at right angles to said throat, and the ends of said hooks being adapted to engage opposite sides of a cylindrical fixed supporting medium, and a screw adaptedto be moved into clamping contact with said tubular member introduced through either the said throat or the said passageway, said clamp being adapted to attach said tubular mem- 1 her to a cylindrical fixed supporting medium disposed either parallel or at right angles thereto, and a bracket arm having an extension at each of its ends adapted either to be received within said tubular member or to receive thereon an article of furniture.

5. The combination in a furniture bracket of a hollow tubular member adapted to be removably attached to a cylindrical fixed supporting medium; a clamp provided with two parallelly disposed hooks forming a throat therebetween, the shanks of said hooks being so disposed as to provide a passageway through the clamp at right angles to said throat, and the ends of said hooks being adapted to engage opposite sides of said cylindrical fixed supporting medium,

and a screw adapted to be moved into clamping contact with said tubular member introduced through either the said throat or the said passageway, said clamp being adapted to attach said tubular member to said cylindrical fixed supporting medium SIMON JONES.

Witnesses LORETTA BOBSON JAMES J. MCLARNEY. 

